Kiril Nikolaev

About Kiril Nikolaev

Kiril Nikolaev is the founder and main writer of InvestorAcademy.org. He has passed all three CFA exams on first attempt.
Mr. Nikolaev has worked as a financial analyst for BMO Financial Group, which is one of the largest banks in Canada. Currently, he's a Funds Subject Matter Expert at Mitre Media. This company owns website properties in many niches of finance. Kiril is responsible for content strategy and analysis for a few of their properties, including ETFdb.com, MutualFunds.com, Dividend.com, and a few others.
Kiril has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal for a top article on "sin" stocks.
His passion is in investment finance and he loves to spread awareness of finance and analysis, so that anyone can become an investor.
Hire Kiril on Upwork, or find him on LinkedIn.

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